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Sprinkler problem solved

Sunday morning, we resumed irrigating Ferguson field…but the sprinkler wasn’t working correctly.  It was either not rotating, or rotating very slowly.  The impulse action was very subdued, and the spray pattern was different. Our first thought was: the pump is broken!  But the easier thing to check was the sprinkler. […]

Goulds 53555 irrigation pump
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More irrigation today with new pipe

We needed more distribution pipe to reach the far corners of a couple of fields with our irrigation system, so we bought some poly pipe today. Actually, we picked up a 300-foot roll of K-Line, a kind of poly pipe that works with the fittings we’ve been using. We also […]

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Irrigation pump, pipe, and sprinkler

On July 25, 2013, we got the irrigation pump going and tested the distribution line and sprinkler.  The good news?  The pump works and the sprinkler works.  The bad news is the black poly pipe distribution line is degraded to the point it needs to be replaced. Here’s the first […]